Thnx Pinterest & Nana: Water Painting

My mom, aka Nana, came for a visit last week. Needless to say C had changed significantly since she saw him last in October. We did all sorts of fun activities like visiting a farm, going to the park, playing in the dirt and a special activity that Nana found on Pinterest, here is her guest post.

Hi, I’m C’s Nana – Since it’s been more than a few years since I entertained a busy toddler, when I came to visit last week, Pinterest was the perfect place to look for fun new (old) ideas to do with C.

PINspiration

Idea & Photo Courtesy of The Outlaw Mom

Loved

Water painting is perfect for indoors – put the easel or just paper on a tiled floor and let the painter go to town!

Easy cleanup for grandmas…. and mums

Watching C try the roller, brush and sponge on the paper. I think the sponge was his favourite – both for painting and checking out the texture on his tongue

(The water container ended up being one of the best attractions!)

Learned

This is the perfect and safe way to introduce a toddler to painting – they can play in, and with, the “paint”

It’s still too soon for real paint!

Have a good supply of paper towel or beach towels ready to “blot” up the paint… and the artist

Have a change of clothing ready for the artist…. and maybe Nana depending on the artist’s enthusiasm, he might try to paint things other than the paper!